“80,000 Hours: Job Birds” by Conor Barnes 🔶
Hi everybody! I'm Conor. I run the 80,000 Hours Job Board. Or I used to. As of today — April 1 — we are becoming Job Birds! We've been talking to users for the last few years about making this change,...
1 Apr 20253min
“Introducing The Spending What We Must Pledge” by Thomas Kwa🔹
Epistemic status: highly certain, or something The Spending What We Must 💸11% pledge In short: Members pledge to spend at least 11% of their income on effectively increasing their own productivity. ...
1 Apr 20255min
“Anthropic is not being consistently candid about their connection to EA” by burner2
In a recent Wired article about Anthropic, there's a section where Anthropic's president, Daniela Amodei, and early employee Amanda Askell seem to suggest there's little connection between Anthropic a...
31 Mar 20256min
“Five insights from farm animal economics” by LewisBollard
How the dismal science can help us end the dismal treatment of farm animals By Martin Gould Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the F...
29 Mar 202513min
“Stewardship: CEA’s 2025-26 strategy to reach and raise EA’s ceiling” by Oscar Howie, Zachary Robinson🔸
“I” refers to Zach, the Centre for Effective Altruism's CEO. Oscar is CEA's Chief of Staff. We are grateful to all the CEA staff and community members who have contributed insightful input and feedbac...
29 Mar 202525min
“Joey/AIM transition announcement” by Joey🔸
After ~7 years, I am stepping away from being the CEO of AIM and will transition to a board member. My current planned last day is December 1st, giving ample time for a smooth transition. As is true f...
28 Mar 20251min
“Money, Population, and Insecticide Resistance: Why malaria cases haven’t declined since 2015” by Paul SHC
Note: I am not a malaria expert. This is my best-faith attempt at answering a question that was bothering me, but this field is a large and complex field, and I’ve almost certainly misunderstood somet...
24 Mar 202549min
“You probably won’t solve malaria or x-risk, and that’s ok” by Rory Fenton
Cross-posted from my blog. Contrary to my carefully crafted brand as a weak nerd, I go to a local CrossFit gym a few times a week. Every year, the gym raises funds for a scholarship for teens from low...
21 Mar 202510min
